The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts by Steven Heine

The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts

Steven Heine

315 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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Bodhidharma, its first patriarch, reputedly said that Zen Buddhism represents "a special transmission outside the teaching/Without reliance on words and letters." This saying, along with the often perplexing use of language (and silence) by Zen ma...

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